Resisting Reading Mandates
Subtitle: How to Triumph with the Truth
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: February 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780325004464
Subjects: English language: reading skills; Literacy; Teaching of a specific subject; Education; Education / Teaching; English; USA; Educational Policy & Reform - School Safety; Language Experience Approach; Education / Educational Policy & Reform / School Safety & Violence; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Education and state; Evaluation; National Reading Panel (U.S); Phonetic method; Reading; United States
Description: "In this book, Elaine Garan dejargonizes the research and takes us behind the curtain, using her own research and analysis of the issues and applying them to us as real teachers in real classrooms in an easy-to-read format we can use. Garan takes on the National Reading Panel Report, specifically the research summarized in the phonics subgroup report, and robs it of its power by meticulously documenting its basic flaws. In the process, she enables us to respond the "research says" claims with solid arguments of our own, using the NRP's very own words.

Furthermore, her book reveals the true findings of the NRP's report on commercial programs and isolated phonics instruction and the strong financial links that are connected to its "science." As Dick Allington says in the foreword to this book, improving teaching and learning in the real world of schools and classrooms is difficult enough without government-sponsored misallocation of effort and funding."--Jacket.